Emancipatio Rabbinica: The Role of Rabbinic Literature in Debates Surrounding the Status of the Jews in the Modern Period (1600–1900) in the Italian, German, and Eastern European Contexts

参考古代拉比文学，主要是塔木德，渗透了大量的犹太和基督教文本，讨论1600年至1900年间犹太人在欧洲的地位。无论一个人是支持还是反对犹太文明和社会进步的事业，《塔木德》都是他们用来表达自己立场的来源。因此，确定塔木德和拉比文献对基督教占多数的公民社会的总体影响成为当时流行讨论的重要组成部分。这些作品中有很多都明确地提到了《塔木德》，要么将其视为犹太人道德和文化力量的源泉，要么将其视为困扰他们的灾难的根源。然而，尽管该主题具有深远的跨文化和跨地理含义，但从未对传统拉比资料在这些辩论中的独特作用进行过大规模研究。emanancipatio Rabbinica试图绘制和探索从17世纪初到19世纪末的意大利、德国和东欧文化领域出现的大量文本。它将寻找有关当时宗教话语特征的棘手问题的答案；犹太-基督教关系的框架；对犹太人和犹太教的看法；以及攻击作为犹太教代表的塔木德的策略，以及捍卫它的策略。在此过程中，该研究项目将揭示一种神学-政治叙事，这种叙事深深植根于欧洲犹太人的解放历史和当代对欧洲本身的理解。以语料库为基础，解放拉比尼察项目试图实现三个目标：通过犹太和基督教对拉比犹太教的重新评价，重新概念化现代欧洲犹太人争取和反对公民权利和政治权利的斗争；进一步深入了解现代反犹主义的发展，以及公共领域的兴起如何促进了它的发展；并通过对过去发生的宗教间话语的复杂神学基础的调查，突出围绕欧洲宗教和少数民族的经历和融合的更广泛的问题。

References to ancient rabbinic literature, and primarily the Talmud, permeate the vast body of Jewish and Christian texts debating the place of Jews in Europe between 1600 and 1900. Whether a person was for the cause of Jewish civil and social advancement or against it, the Talmud was the source they used to articulate their position. Thus, ascertaining the overall bearing of the Talmud and rabbinic literature on Christian majority civil society became a vital part of the prevailing discussions of the time. A number of these works address the Talmud explicitly, either seeing it as a source of ethical and cultural strength for the Jewish people or, at worst, as the cause of the woes that bedevil them. Yet a large-scale study of the unique role of traditional rabbinic sources in these debates has never been undertaken, in spite of the topic’s far-reaching transcultural and cross-geographical implications. Emancipatio Rabbinica seeks to map and explore a large corpus of texts that emerged from the Italian, German, and Eastern European cultural domains, from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. It will search for answers to thorny questions about the character of the religious discourse of the time; the framework of Jewish-Christian relations; perceptions of Jews and Judaism; and strategies for attacking the Talmud as a proxy for Judaism, as well as for defending it. In the process, the research project will uncover a theologico-political narrative that is deeply embedded in the emancipatory history of European Jewry and in contemporary understandings of Europe itself. With its corpus-based approach, the Emancipatio Rabbinica project seeks to fulfill three objectives: to re-conceptualize the struggles for and against the Jews’ civil and political rights in modern Europe through the lens of Jewish and Christian reappraisals of rabbinic Judaism; to provide further insight into the development of modern antisemitism, and how the rise of the public sphere helped promote it; and to highlight broader issues surrounding the experience and integration of religious and ethnic minorities in Europe, through an investigation into the complex theological foundation upon which interreligious discourse took place in the past.